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    Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
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    Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion

    By Jennifer Saginor

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    About this ebook

    In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began. 

    You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need.

    You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you.

    Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story Jennifer Saginor who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she'd done countless drugs, had a secret affair with Hef's girlfriend, and was already losing her grip on reality. Schoolwork, family, and "ordinary people" had no meaning behind the iron gates of the Mansion, where celebrities frolicked, pool parties abounded, and her own father—Hugh Hefner's personal physician and best friend, the man nicknamed "Dr. Feel Good"—typically held court.

    Every day was a party, every night was an adventure, and through it all was a young girl falling faster and faster down the rabbit hole—trying desperately hard not to get lost. 


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061749537
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    Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
    Author

    Jennifer Saginor

    Jennifer Saginor was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she still lives. She has worked in production and development at Spelling Entertainment, Miramax Films, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book... Its fascinating reading an insight into what it was really like in the playboy mansion... All the money and material things in the world can't bring you happiness like in the way of being brought up in a loving secure family... Sad really but was an enjoyable read I could not put the book down and its 5 stars from me ???????
    • 5/5
      I'm about five years older than Jennifer, and even though I didn't have access to her wealth, upscale nightclubs, or the Playboy Mansion, many of the things she discusses resonate with me, including self-medicating with drugs and alcohol and feeling at odds with my parents and disconnected from "normal" people. Many of the things I thought I wanted in my youth were an illusion. Like Jennifer, I've spent a lifetime trying to come to terms with myself.
    • 5/5
      I couldn't put this book down. Has helped me understand pieces of my own childhood and the inner most longings of needing my parents. Thank you, Jennifer for sharing your story.
    • 2/5
      This was an easy read but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone nor read it again. She constantly name drops celebrities as if that’s a last grab for this book. The way she seems to down play the horrible experiences with adults is also unnerving. There’s never a reconciliation. The ending made me feel just as bad as the rest of the book did. I do feel very bad for her and I wish she could understand what the issues actually were here.
    • 4/5
      It wasn’t bad, I didn’t see the reviews on this until I was about halfway through and already invested. Several reviews prod at the point that this is written by a “whining rich girl”. In all honesty it read in a therapeutic way. It’s disjointed here and there, the manipulation, and war with her parents made my heart ache.
      Overall I found it interesting and really sad.
    • 5/5
      I couldn’t put this book down! I’m looking forward to the Netflix movie that’s supposed to premier this fall!
    • 5/5
      Thoroughly enjoyed it. You WILL find yourself on google if you don’t know the people ( for ref pics of what they looked like) .. Story gets a little crazy but it is a good story . I don’t think it is a place for kids and I’m glad it wasn’t me, but I couldn’t put it down .

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was actually a really good book involving a subject that I think intrigues a lot of people: the phenomenon of Hugh Hefner and the Playboy mansion. I've read Holly Madison's book (good-ish), and tried Kendra Wilkins book (No.), and this was unashamed, unapologetic, and super interesting.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Immensely readable, but so sad. Compelling, but heartbreaking. Jennifer Saginor's father is Hugh Hefner's doctor and often at the mansion. She and her sister grow up spending much time at the mansion, until their mother puts her foot down. So Jennifer moves in with her father, because he is way more permissive (read, neglectful and awful). Truly sad because no one could save this little girl from herself. Her dad is too involved with all his bimbos and his lifestyle; her mother is too afraid of her father's volatile temper. Fast read and hard to put down.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      It says on the cover "A trashy beach read with soul". Couldn't agree more. Fast read, entertaining, nothing world changing however. It very much reminded me of Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, just minus the spy stuff. Name dropping and fashion.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      after reading youl get that feeling of last day of school!
    • 5/5
      What a fascinating read. I wish I could be this girl!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      An interesting read, if you want to know what's going on behind the doors of the mansion; some of it is really wild and crazy. I admire the author for her candor, it must have been difficult to write.

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    • 3/5
      A good trashy, summer beach read, but nothing more than that.
    • 3/5
      wasn't great
    • 1/5
      The story got unbelievable the more I read. Decide to not waste anymore time on it.
    • 3/5
      This book was interesting, but.. it's lacking. It zooms by pretty quickly, and there are no pictures at all. How can you write a story about your life and not include any pictures? We all know the girlfriend was Carrie Leigh, so.. add some pictures already. Have a little proof to back up your story. It was very entertaining, though.
    • 3/5
      I was rather disappointed by this book. I was expecting it to be about a childhood spent living at the Playboy Mansion, but it was really more focused on the drugs she used, who she slept with, and naming as many famous people as she could. You learn a lot about her highly dysfunctional family, but there are a lot of better memoirs to be read if that's what you're interested in.